The trailer for our podcast which launches on September 8, 2026.
Category Archives: Books
Star Trek Reading Hour Trailer (version A)
A trailer for our upcoming show, launching on September 8, 2026.
Book Review: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
After I killed my wife, I had twenty hours before her new body finished printing downstairs.
Kim Fu, rising literary star (For Today I am a Boy, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore), has written a collection of short stories that mostly fall into SF/fantasy/horror genres, reminiscent of The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror.
Novel Review: Sea of Tranquility
No star burns forever.
Emily St. John Mandel has always played with genre. The post-apocalyptic Station Eleven won accolades in both literary and SF circles, while Glass Hotel, a novel about a Ponzi Scheme, brushed against the edges of SF and Fantasy.
Some of Glass Hotel‘s characters reappear in her most recent novel, while the ghosts of Station Eleven haunt the book. It’s a time-travel story, set in pasts, presents, and futures.
Novel Review: Piranesi
In 2020, award-winning author Susanna Clarke published this slender but monumental novel about a man living in a vast labyrinth filled with many statues and a few dead bodies, and pervaded with mystery.
Cover Reveal: Live Nude Aliens and Other Stories
A collection of my short fiction, old and new, will be released in March. Today the publisher unveiled the cover, with great original art by Dan Barrick.
Novel Review: Chasing the Boogeyman
When I first started clipping newspaper articles and jotting down notes about the tragic events that transpired in my hometown of Edgewood, Maryland, during the summer and autumn of 1988, I had no thoughts of one day turning those scattered observations into a full-length book (1).
Richard Chizmar, successful suspense writer and friend of Stephen King, reimagines his early days as a writer but inserts a serial killer into his home town. We have a weird, suspenseful blend of real history and biography and an entirely fictional series of murders. It has become the Halloween novel of 2021.
Does it live up to the hype?
Book Review: The Hard Side of the Moon
Hugh A.D. Spencer has a history of publishing off-kilter SF stories which garner award nominations. If you’re unfamiliar with his work, The Hard Side of the Moon makes for a worthwhile introduction.
Novel Review: The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
“Ambush!” Ming turned and shouted behind them. “Ambush!” he raised his gun and shot the two lead riders in quick succession, their riderless horses running out from underneath them and galloping panicked onward (85).
A Chinese-American railway worker, accompanied by a blind seer, heads across a magic-realist old west seeking revenge and hoping to reunite with his wife.
Novel Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Ideas are so much wilder than memories.”
A genre-bending fantasy sits atop the bestseller list this past year, the story of a woman who makes a deal with an ancient, dark god.
You know how these things tend to go.